The 24-year was in Europe recently -- where the folks apparently eat up his gender-fluid gansta persona. During his stay, he did an interview the Guardian. Thug showed up hours late, sipped lean throughout the talk, and his people forbid the journalist from asking any questions about Thug's drama with Baby and Lil Wayne.

But he did drop a pretty revealing quote:

"I like everything that people say," he insists. "No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you’re ugly, you can’t rap, you’re the hardest."

Do you think Thugger's approach is working? Or are his eccentricities overshadowing his music?